Brazil didn't elect a fascist. Serbia threw out their fascists.
US Next.
Perhaps the least understood of his magickal gifts are his “Sales Hexes and Charms.” By drawing crude runes and symbols on commercial items, he can improve the businesses of friends or ruin those of enemies.
@WeirdXmas Hey, at least it's got scary-looking witches.
04:35 on Sunday October 25th, over the Indian Ocean
RE: https://mastodon.social/@standardebooks/117513053011178038
hardest flex ever
Was in the hospital with severe food poisoning. Thought it was great the NHS provided wet wipes in the toilets, only to realise a few bowel movements later they were disinfectant wipes and my arsehole was red raw.
@fesshole cleanest arsehole on Fesshole though, so there's that.
There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
Years ago I thought the most of the #Epstein case was a conspiracy, unfortunately it’s more horrific in reality
Some of the worlds most powerful people involved in crimes most of us refused to believe, now that there is some out there and we barely scratch the surface nothing seems to happen
If justice where to mean anything we would do as much as we could to hold them accountable, if stealing a bread ends you up in jail why aren’t we prosecuting the powerful who are a lot worse
I wont forget
@GerardThornley @david @neil /e/ drastically reduces both privacy and security compared to the Android Open Source Project. If you care at all about those, stay far away from it. The standard Fairphone software doesn't receive good updates and everything older than the Fairphone 6 has an end-of-life kernel but it's still better than /e/. /e/ and Murena products are not what they're marketed as being.
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@davidgerard I have to admit that (at a glance), this isn't far from my stance. I'm the primary maintainer for a tiny open source project (but not the owner). I refuse to use LLM codegen, myself. The LLM PR descriptions universally suck and drain my soul of the will to continue. *But* a bugfix is bugfix, and a single line bugfix is either identical to what I would've written by hand or I've asked them to rewrite it. I've accepted multiline test cases iff they ape the style in other tests.
@nick_evans that's nice, but what they're claiming this in response to is a changelog full of slop
So why would I launch https://columnly.social right before Pixelfed's new webUI?
Columnly is built on several of the new Pixelfed webUI components, and I wanted to test them in production and also Nuxt with hybrid rendering to catch any pesky bugs before I deploy this to millions of people.
The new Pixelfed webUI is much better than Columnly and the current experience.
I can't wait ☺️
@dansup Really great !! thank you !! I use Elk.zone since long but I think Columnly will make me change my mind !! For the DM, it's just what I waited for so long !!
If you can read this, then my new £9, USB-C charging, folding Bluetooth keyboard works.
And it is a surprisingly fine typing experience, based on this initial testing.
I will write some more notes once I have spent a bit more time with it.
@neil
Nice!
If there's also a white version, preferably with some type of pointing device and a QWERTZ layout, then I'm in!
You can move from one Mastodon server to another and take your followers and following with you, but not your posts. The issue for post migration has been open since 2019, has over 300 comments, and is still unresolved. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
I think this remains as a deadlock because everyone keeps trying to solve the whole problem at once. Which seems funny, since the new v5 alpha just released on mastodon.social has an empty right column "for future content".
On the fediverse, a post's identity is its address on the server where it was written. A copy on a new server gets a new address. Replies, boosts, and likes on other servers still point to the old one, and the new server can't prove you wrote something in 2019. Doing this "properly" requires protocol changes, and that's why nothing has happened for 7 years.
But I don't think most people care about any of that. They want their posts safe on their profile, to own and browse their posts freely. I think losing old like counts and reply threads is fine, but currently we are losing everything when a server goes down.
Here is my proof of concept. While working on our Mastodon 5 alpha dev server, I needed real content, so I wrote a small script that copies my account's posts from our live server to the test server. It's about 100 lines of Ruby. It reads the public posts through the Mastodon API, creates them with their original dates, downloads the images and videos, and recreates boosts. The posts look like they've always been there.
Mastodon already gives you everything you need for this. Go to Settings, Import and export, Request your archive, and you get a zip with all your posts and media. The import page accepts follows, blocks, mutes, domain blocks, bookmarks, lists, and filters. Posts are the one thing it doesn't accept back.
So the minimum version would be:
- Upload your archive to the new server.
- Your posts appear on your profile with their original dates and media.
- Each post is marked as imported, with a link back to the original.
No protocol changes, no trust problems, and nobody gets their feed flooded. It's your archive, readable on your profile.
Federating the old posts could come later. One idea: a background job that slowly makes the imported posts known to other servers, a few at a time, so it never looks like a flood.
Another idea: send nothing at all and let other servers fetch a post when someone opens it.
But these are just ideas that popped into my head just now.
A read-only archive on your new profile would already be better than what we have now, which is nothing.
#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #PostMigration #Moving #NewServer #Fediverse
>a background job that slowly makes the imported posts known to other servers, a few at a time, so it never looks like a flood
You might be interested in looking at https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/1580/
Why, Mastodon? Why?
Why are you forcing signed requests for all "Accept: application/json" HTTP requests of the actor URL? Rather than just actors that choose to be "private".
...
curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' https://mastodon.social/users/reiver
{"error":"Request not signed"}
@reiver the main reason is this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/40283
Whitacre's "Sacred Veil ("I'm Afraid") always makes me cry. I saw and heard so much in my time working with AHS during COVID and I heard "I'm scared" or "I'm afraid" so many times as I was working on IT hardware.
Often it was moments before the doctor administered the sweet smell of sevoflurane via a mask, and that was the last time that patient saw light.
I watched a heart transplant in one theatre and a lung transplant in another.
COVID-19 is and was a time I can't shake. The patients, the loved ones interrogating me because I had an AHS lanyard on me in the waiting rooms. The misdirected anger. The patients that drowned in their own lungs.
Get your fucking vaccine. Please. From just an IT guy who lived through the COVID times in the ICUs, please. For your loved ones, get the vaccine.
I'll just leave these here for now, as a little teaser of what's coming for #Amiberry soon... :)
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imo the idea of "let's have our institution switch from MS Office to LibreOffice/OnlyOffice/Collabora/etc." sets up a task that's more likely to fail than not
the discussion should start with document formats, the fact that MS Office provides two -- one a proprietary binary mess that others have to reverse engineer and another a partially standardized also-mess that still brings in a lot of MS-specific logic, and that ODF is a more reliable standard instead (which MSO also happens to support)
and a workplace that uses ODF is much more prepared for a hypothetical nightmare scenario of "we're locked out from microsoft (presumably by order of the u.s. government)" than one that switched programs, but keeps using MS's document formats (which presumably now risk loading badly for MSO users or users of other open-source office suites)
Governments are exerting control over access to abortion information and care on the Web, including blocking websites and surveilling people’s online activity.
Read our practical guide offering guidance to Sexual and reproductive justice activists.
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That blows my mind.
@lowqualityfacts If an ant was the size of a mouse, *I* would swim across the Atlantic Ocean to get away from it.
LibreOffice is now a project that uses chatbot code then tells people who call them out that slop is "not slop"
so much for the "no AI" babble
https://web.archive.org/web/20261026230500/https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117214068793979843
@davidgerard I have to admit that (at a glance), this isn't far from my stance. I'm the primary maintainer for a tiny open source project (but not the owner). I refuse to use LLM codegen, myself. The LLM PR descriptions universally suck and drain my soul of the will to continue. *But* a bugfix is bugfix, and a single line bugfix is either identical to what I would've written by hand or I've asked them to rewrite it. I've accepted multiline test cases iff they ape the style in other tests.
